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Seattle is the USA's most literate city

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Originally posted by: Matt2
Rankings have remained stable despite some minor reshuffling from year to year. Nine of the top 10 are in the top 10 again this year. Boston fell from seventh to 11th place. Stockton, Calif., and El Paso again come in last and next-to-last, respectively.
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LOL

My hometown is 15 minutes driving distance from Stockton, California.

I attend San Diego State University and I assure you, I can read and so can my family!
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well just like the article stated... it's not whether you can read, it's whether or not you do

 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I live in Seattle now and used to live near Minneapolis. They may both be about the same as far as literacy goes. However, people in Minneapolis are much nicer and are way better drivers. I don't know why, but people in the midwest are just plain nicer.

I like living in Seattle as a young single guy because of all the outdoor activities (though greater Minnesota has ton). However, if I had to raise a family I'd pick MN hands down.
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That's weird because I heard on the radio awhile back that Seattle has the most polite drivers in the USA.
 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
And here's what you all really wanted: The bottom 10

61. Santa Ana, CA
San Antonio, TX
Long Beach, CA
Anaheim, CA
Arlington, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Aurora, CO
Corpus Christi, TX
El Paso, TX
70. Stockton, CA

Whoah. CA is over representing! Why you peeps in CA no reeding?
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our hispanic immigrants can not even speak english, let alone read it. this coming from first hand experience treating patients in orange, riverside, and san bernardino counties.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
I live in Seattle now and used to live near Minneapolis. They may both be about the same as far as literacy goes. However, people in Minneapolis are much nicer and are way better drivers. I don't know why, but people in the midwest are just plain nicer.

I like living in Seattle as a young single guy because of all the outdoor activities (though greater Minnesota has ton). However, if I had to raise a family I'd pick MN hands down.
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That's weird because I heard on the radio awhile back that Seattle has the most polite drivers in the USA.
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If you count not merging, not using blinkers, tailgating, etc as polite. It's NOWHERE near as bad as New York, but it's not especially polite either. Northern California was much better.
 
thats a stupid way to rate literacy....i can read extremely well and at a decent speed, but i never read newspapers, books, or visit libs/bookstores...all that shows is people in seatle are bookworms and have no life

18. Birmingham, AL 242,820

AL represent...lol...too many bookworms >_<
 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
And here's what you all really wanted: The bottom 10

61. Santa Ana, CA
San Antonio, TX
Long Beach, CA
Anaheim, CA
Arlington, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Aurora, CO
Corpus Christi, TX
El Paso, TX
70. Stockton, CA

Whoah. CA is over representing! Why you peeps in CA no reeding?
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No hablo engles.
 
For those who think immigrants have something to do with these rankings, I would draw your attention to the fact that the largest group of Vietnamese immigrants in the country is in Minneapolis.
 
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.

I KNEW I should have taken that job at Microsoft, just to be around some literate chicks. But NOOO, I had to take a Silicon Valley job.

DAMN.
 
Hmm... I disagree that Portland is #10. We have the world's largest independent bookstore (Powell's, a tourist mecca in its own right), the largest public library usage and funding per capita, and the largest newspaper in the region (which includes Seattle).
 
Yeah Pittsburgh! #6 baby!

But I swear I must ride buses and go to school with the people that balance the curve out...

>_<
 
Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
Did anyone else notice that there weren't any of the "Deep South" cities listed? Jackson, MS, Birmingham, AL....where you at?
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Hmm. Even the guy from Austin is struggling to read.

"...drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America?s Most Literate Cities study ranks the 69 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_%28Alabama%29

BTW, when Birmingham was ranked in 2004, they were ranked ahead of Austin.
 
Minnesota gets stuck with being associated with Iowa and the dakotas...We're basically a costal state in terms of intelligence, with the niceness of the midwest. "Minnesota nice."
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Those states also do well in educational measures. I always see ND, Iowa, etc. at the top of lists of highest SAT scores and such.
 
Originally posted by: lyssword
I'm in WA state, been to seattle. They may be the most literate, but they are probably the worst/ manical drivers I've seen 😱
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you are not very travelled are you, boston is probably pretty bad followed by nyc and la
 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
And here's what you all really wanted: The bottom 10

61. Santa Ana, CA
San Antonio, TX
Long Beach, CA
Anaheim, CA
Arlington, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Aurora, CO
Corpus Christi, TX
El Paso, TX
70. Stockton, CA

Whoah. CA is over representing! Why you peeps in CA no reeding?
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probably overpopulation... and too much influx of illegal immigrants compared to the rest of the states. Same with texas (well, i don't know about overpopulation, but they an illegal immigration problem as well)
 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
And here's what you all really wanted: The bottom 10

61. Santa Ana, CA
San Antonio, TX
Long Beach, CA
Anaheim, CA
Arlington, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Aurora, CO
Corpus Christi, TX
El Paso, TX
70. Stockton, CA

Whoah. CA is over representing! Why you peeps in CA no reeding?
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illegal immigrants generally don't focus on learning english.

BTW most of those cities are beacons are illegal immigration. Santa Ana is the illegal capital of the US.


Also, what a useless stat. If they segment the elite towns in Los Angeles, they would get top 10 (Beverly Hills, Century City, Palisades, Brentwood, etc.). The barrios dilute LA stats for it to mean anything.
 
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